According to Trump, his plan will "ensure our veterans get the care
they needwherever and whenever they need it," "support the whole
veteran" by treating both their physical and mental health needs and
"make the VA great again by firing the corrupt and incompetent VA
executives who let our veterans down."

Trump promises an increase in funding for PTSD
and suicide prevention services, increased funding for job training,
incentives for companies that hire vets and working with non-profits
that already work with vets to find employment opportunities.

The Trump VA plan also provides a focus on female vets, who Trump says exemplify some of this "new generation of veterans."

In the eyes of the real estate
mogul-turned-politician, Trump's plan requires managerial prowess — a
skill that he frequently touts as one that only he possesses in a
saturated Republican primary field.

"It's time we have to say it," he told the Virginia crowd, "I like Ben Carson. But there's no way he can fix this, folks."

Trump has hit Carson on his ability to manage
before, saying that Carson's tax plan for a flat tax across the board
would grow agencies like the IRS — a move that Trump explains would
increase bureaucratic red tape.

In his plan, Trump also bucked the idea that throwing money at problems in the VA would work.

Trump, in a rally next to the battleship Wisconsin, said he’d root
out incompetence and corruption in the Department of Veterans Affairs,
firing anyone who stood in the way of reforms he promised would give
vets more choices and faster treatment for injuries and illnesses.

Several thousand turned out for the speech at the spot where 2012
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney introduced Paul Ryan as his
running mate. The current GOP frontrunner crowed that he’d been told his
appearance drew a lot more people.

It wasn’t the only boast from the billionaire businessman and reality-TV celebrity during the nearly 90-minute speech.

He said he’d use his negotiating skills and unpredictability to
rewrite U.S. relations with Iran and China, which he said have run
roughshod over weak U.S. negotiators. “I mean, you can’t blame China if
we have people that are incompetent representing us.”

Trump repeated his promise to build a wall to quell illegal
immigration – and make Mexico foot its multibillion-dollar cost. He
pledged to cut new trade deals to bring jobs back from overseas. And he
said he intends to spend more on defense. “We are going to build our
military so big and so strong and so powerful that we’re not going have
to use it, most likely.”

Hampton Roads radio show host Steve Batton emceed the rally. Gary
Byler, a Virginia Beach lawyer, GOP activist and former state House
candidate, was introduced as Trump’s Hampton Roads chair. Virginia Beach
School Board member Carolyn Weems spoke and endorsed Trump.

About 40 vets, recruited from the crowd by rally organizers, stood on stage behind Trump throughout the speech.

Among them was Toby Yarbrough, a retired Army sergeant from
Chesapeake who said the rally was the first political event he’d
attended.

Yarbrough, who was disabled in a heavy-equipment accident while
serving in Iraq in 2002, brought his service dog, a German shepherd
named Duke. He said he found Trump’s penchant for political
incorrectness refreshing. “We need more nonpoliticians to run our
country. So many politicians have their hands in our pockets, it’s
pitiful.”

A handful of protesters stood at the entrance of the event in opposition to Trump’s immigration proposals.

Trump shot to the top of the polls shortly after his announcement
speech in June, which drew widespread media attention for comments about
Mexican immigrants, and he has remained first in most polls since
then.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the two
GOP establishment candidates closest to Trump in polls, have had
difficulty gaining ground. Trump’s attacks on Bush as a “low-energy
person” are credited with helping dampen his well-financed campaign.

Methodology This Harris Poll was conducted online within the United Statesbetween October 14 and 19, 2015 among
2,225 adults(aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity,
education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to
bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population.
Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents'
propensity to be online.All
sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling,
are subject to multiple sources of error which are most often not
possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage
error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question
wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and
adjustments. Therefore, The Harris Poll avoids the words "margin of
error" as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different
possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure,
unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only
theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal.Respondents
for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to
participate in Harris Poll surveys. The data have been weighted to
reflect the composition of the adult population. Because the sample is
based on those who agreed to participate in our panel, no estimates of
theoretical sampling error can be calculated.".........................

The same complaint had come from Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz,
though Bush spokesperson Tim Miller said he was not aware of the
encounter between the RNC officials and CNBC. The source familiar with
the encounter said Spicer and Walsh did not bring up any other
candidates.

Comment: More proof if needed that the
Republican Party doesn't exist, that the Democrat party is the only functioning
political party in the US. The name "Republican Party" is being used for organized crime. What an embarrassment for the United States.

"The Saint Leo University Polling Institute conducts its surveys using
cutting-edgeonline methodology, which is rapidly transforming the field
of survey research. The sample is drawn from large online panels, which
allow for random selections that reflect accurate cross sections of all
demographic groups. Online methodology has the additional advantage of
allowing participants to respond to the survey at a time, place, and
speed that is convenient to them, which may result in more thoughtful
answers. The Saint Leo University Polling Institute develops the
questionnaires, administers the surveys, and conducts analysis of the
results. Panel participants typically receive a token incentive—usually
$1 dollar deposited into an iTunes or Amazon account—for their
participation."...

“I will be
the greatest jobs president – and I say it – that God ever created,” he
said. “We have 93 million people in our workforce. Many of them want to
work and they can’t get a job. It’s like incredible because jobs are
leaving.”

Trump added that China has been taking advantage of the United States, something he promised to stop if elected.

Steve Tate, 71, of Reno, said he thought Trump was focused more on issues than previous times he’s heard the candidate speak.

“He
really focused on substantive matters,” he said. “I don’t think he did
as well as he thought he did last night (in the debate), but I thought
he did a heck of a job today.”

Alese McMurty, a 19-year-old University of Nevada, Reno student, said all Trump offered her was empty rhetoric.

“He
goes on and on about himself about how he’s so great and he’s going to
create all these jobs, but he doesn’t say how he’s going to create all
these jobs,” she said. “I thought it was lacking in concrete policy.”

“I
supported (John) McCain. [Trump was a McCain bundler]. Now he had a hard time (in 2008) because with
what was happening was pretty tough. I say Abraham Lincoln maybe
couldn’t have done it,” he said.

“I supported (Mitt) Romney and he let
us down (in 2012). He just let us down because that was an election that
should’ve been won. So I supported McCain, I supported Romney and now
I’m saying to hell with it, I’m doing it myself."...

(continuing): "He also reserved
criticism for the media, particularly CNBC for what he described as bad
debate moderation and Politico for what he said was dishonest coverage
around his poll numbers and a recent event in Iowa.

Retired
neurosurgeon Ben Carson overtook Trump in several national polls
recently, but he said that was being blown out of proportion by the
media. Trump added the size of the crowds at his rallies were proof his
campaign was not losing steam."...

[Ed. note: Not sure which "several national polls" author references.]

(continuing): "“I was a little below Carson,” he
said. “It was the biggest story I’ve ever seen. It was true. It
happened. It was bigger than anything – it was bigger than Benghazi with
Hillary (Clinton).”

Tate said this was a natural reaction from a candidate known for being boisterous.

“People
hear about him and the polls start climbing,” Tate said. “Now he’s got
to get a lot more substance or he’s going to go down. I thinkhe
realizes it but he won’t admit it.”

Overall, Gail Pfeiffer, 67, of
Sparks, said she enjoyed the Trump rally, especially since it offered a
chance to hear him in more than just sound bites.

Marjie
Faust, 70, of Reno, said she was pleased with the end result, but
thought Trump focused too much on himself and his accomplishments in the
beginning before talking about policy and answering questions.

“I
was put off at first,” she said. “I never felt strongly because we’ve
always gotten promises. I know he’s a celebrity. Ronald Reagan was a
celebrity, but this gentleman has a different way of coming across, so
I’m just going to wait and see.”"

Third image from Reno Gazette-Journal: "Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump greets his supporters after
speaking during a campaign rally at the Nugget Hotel and Casino in
Sparks on Oct. 29, 2015.(Photo: Jason Bean)"

Austrian Interior MinisterJohanna Mikl-Leitner
insisted the move was aimed solely at bringing order to the unrelenting
influx of people entering the country, telling parliament there were no
plans "to build a fence around Austria."

[Ed. note: How is "seeking a better life" defined as ruining someone else's
life? Assuming an EU nation is more "prosperous" than a Middle Eastern
nation, how did it get that way? What's stopping a Middle Eastern or
African nation from applying the same techniques and achieving the same
results? Every country started with nothing. Why isn't wealthy Saudi
Arabia taking in any refugees? It would be much better for refugees to
be in a familiar warm climate. Answer:Because it's not about refugees. It's about breaking Europe.]

Greece
already erected a barbed wire fence three years ago on a section of its
border with Turkey not separated by a river. Bulgaria also has fenced
off parts of its boundary to Turkey, while some Baltic states plan to
erect fences on border segments with Russia.

But all of these
existing or planned fences are either on outer EU borders or between two
EU countries where one is not yet part of the Schengen Agreement meant
to ensure the free movement of persons.

"People who come to us as refugees from Afghanistan
cannot all expect to be able to stay in Germany," he said, adding that
Afghans will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

In Austria,
Mikl-Leitner told parliament that the construction of "technical
barriers" would begin after about 10 days of planning but gave no exact
date for the start of the project.

Speaking to state broadcaster
ORF, Mikl-Leitner cited the need for a fence to maintain public order
while Defense Minister Gerald Klug said containers or railings could be
set up to "control the refugees in an orderly way."

The
usually excellent relations between Germany and Austria have been
strained in recent days, with Germany accusing Austria on Wednesday of
dropping asylum-seekers near their border after dark without warning....

In
recent days, new legislation has come into force in Germany that is
aimed at making it easier to send home people who don't qualify for
asylum— a measure aimed primarily at citizens of Balkan nations such as
Albania and Kosovo.

Well, you might think, that is a serious situation; but fortunately
Germany is a representative democracy and when citizens make their
concerns known to their representatives, the government will surely take
steps to help them. Not so.German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her New Year's Eve address to vilify her fellow citizens in the Pegida
movement who are protesting against the Islamisation of the West.

Merkel has mobilised all the forces at her disposal in an attempt to
suppress the incipient rebellion against liberal totalitarianism. All
the usual suspects have rallied to the regime: the state broadcaster,
Germany’s legacy parties, the financial establishment, the churches…The
Catholic Church, whose adherents are the victims of mass murder in
Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria and every other country where jihadism is
running rampant, switched off the lights of Cologne Cathedral to obscure
the Pegida marchers who are trying to prevent a further influx of
Muslims into Europe.

Turkeys voting for Christmas? Yes, because senior clerics in Germany
are concerned only with trousering the massive handouts the government
lavishes on registered denominations: rendering unto Caesar is the
priority of organised religion in Germany. What Frau Merkel wants, she
gets.

Naturally, Rentamob has organised counter-demonstrations, the ones
that will be given prominence by the BBC. Violent leftists are trying to
prevent the Pegida marches from spreading beyond Dresden to the rest of
Germany, where polls show one German in three would like to join them.
It is the Marxist and Anarchist thugs’ responsibility to prevent that,
at all costs, by intimidation.

The establishment will try to laugh off the notion that such
disparate elements as politicians, bankers and far leftists could be
engaged in a joint enterprise – a crazed conspiracy theory, surely?
Consider, then, the remarks made by Peter Sutherland, the “Father of
Globalisation”, Bilderberg organiser and uber-Europhile to a House of
Lords committee in 2012.

Migration, the Well-Lunched One declared, was a “crucial dynamic for
economic growth” in some EU nations “however difficult it may be to
explain this to the citizens of those states”. Declining populations in
countries like Germany was the “key argument” for “the development of
multicultural states”. He condemned Europeans “who still nurse a sense
of our homogeneity and difference from others. And that’s precisely what
the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine.”

That is plain speaking. A member of the innermost elite confirms the
EU’s role as undermining homogeneity. Europe,formerly the most
civilised entity in the world, is to be subsumed into aglobalised pool
of cheap labourexploited by large corporations and regulated by
bureaucrats. All distinctive culture, national identity, the
Judaeo-Christian ethic and everything that contributed so greatly to
human civilisation are to be expunged in favour of profit for the few
and state regulation for the many.

Such soft totalitarianism might seem less frightening than Nazism or
Communism, but the end product will be in every way as nightmarish. It
must be defeated. Until now, the populations of Britain, Germany and
other EU states have behaved like somnambulists, passively accepting the
projected New Order.

The one consolation is that some people, though still only a
minority, are waking up.The movements expressing their concerns –
Pegida, UKIP and others – are Davids facing the Goliath of EU
totalitarianism.The forces ranged against them are massive and endowed
with all the resources of the state and plutocracy. Yet they are the
only hope of saving the nations of Europe from cultural extinction.
Their one potential strength is popular support. Will you be with them?"

A cold front spread across the region Tuesday afternoon, bringing spotty rain showers to metro Denver and widespread snow in the mountains. "Snow showers will continue in the mountains before ending later
tonight," Chief Meteorologist Dave Fraser said. "Skies will turn clear
overnight leading to temperatures near freezing. So, there is a FROST
ADVISORY in place for the entire Front Range and northeastern plains. You should protect sensitive plants by covering them or bringing them in
for the night if possible."

Wednesday will be sunny and pleasantly mild with a high near 60 degrees in Denver." Image above from KDVR

10/28/15, "GOP Establishment’s Rick Wilson: Donor Class Must ‘Put a Bullet in Donald Trump’," Brietbart, Tony Lee.............. "On Tuesday evening, establishment Republican consultant Rick Wilson
said the GOP establishment donor class must find a way to “put a bullet”
in GOP frontrunner Donald Trump............... In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Wilson conceded that “Trump
is still a very powerful force right now” because he appeals to part of
the of the conservative base that Wilson said was activated by his
“nativist” message. Wilson insisted that the donor class “can’t just sit
back on the sidelines and say, ‘oh well, don’t worry, this will all
work itself out.’”.............. “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump,” Wilson said. “And that’s a fact.”................
Republican establishment figures who have underestimated Trump since
he entered the race are reportedly looking to raise millions to try to
derail Trump and knock him out of the race. Wilson added that the
Republican establishment must figure out a way to find a candidate who
can successfully “post up” against Hillary Clinton because “neither
Donald Trump or Ben Carson is ready to go up against the Clinton
machine. Wilson claimed that Trump and Carson are “obviously not ready
for primetime.”..................Wilson, who tried to use the disgusting rape threat made against his daughter to score political points
against Breitbart News and Breitbart News Editor-at-Large John Nolte,
has denigrated Trump and his supporters throughout the election cycle..................... During a September CNN interview, Wilsontold
Erin Burnett that Trump could “eat a live baby on television”and
Trump’s supporters “would think it’s the greatest thing in America.” He
has also demeaned Trump’s supporters as “low-information” rubes and has likened them to “post-rational” conspiracy theorists......................
In an interview
with CNN’s Don Lemon, Wilson said Trump’s message “doesn’t have to make
sense” for his supporters to back him and compared Trump to someone who
is a conspiracy theorist like “your cranky uncle at Thanksgiving” who
always has a theory about the Bilderbergers or the World Bank, or the
IMF, or the Trilateral Commission.”.................... Trump has never referred to any of these entities on the stump–all
Trump has said is that America has signed unfair trade deals in which
America’s stupid leaders let other countries take advantage of the U.S.
to the detriment of American workers. But Wilson claimed that Trump has a
“very strange, sort of parochial, old-fashioned view of the world and
the international economy.”................
“And this thing, I’m going to bring back the jobs from China. OK. The
$2-an-hour jobs making wire harnesses for computers. It’s just a
fantasy,” Wilson said...................
Trump has been like Teflon in this election cycle because so many Americans are fed up with out-of-touch establishment consultantslike
Wilson and their preferred candidates like Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio.................. Wilson and his ilk charge candidates hefty sums to “advise” them on
how to appeal “regular Americans,” but he and the consultant class have
not only shown that they are clueless about independent voters and
Reagan Democrats who determine elections, but, perhaps more
disturbingly, revealed how much disdain and contempt they have for
blue-collar Americans of all backgrounds who are not versed in the lingo
of the tactician class.................... GOP establishment consultants often preach that “politics is about
addition”when taking shots at conservatives for rhetoric that they do
not like or think will turn off “independents,” but those like Wilson
have been quick to attack Trump and his supporters with inflammatory
language that they would never tolerate from conservative candidates and
their grassroots supporters."................................ Among comments at Breitbart........... ===================........ "Jeffrey C. Miller•8 hours ago............

Do these people actually hear what they are saying?The Donor Class must stop Trump? Who and what is this???............In all my years following politics I have never seen a political
party so hell bent on destroying it’s chances to win a Presidential
Election simply because they hate their own front runner and he isn’t
one of the Elites.Maybe the GOPe really doesn’t want to win and will be content to have
Hillary as President. With that strategy they can run against her all
the time try and keep the Congress Republican so they can “Stop Her
Agenda” which of course they will help pass..........We now see in the fullness of Daylight the Absolute Corruption that
we have from both Parties and while I don’t think Trump can do
everything I will take him over the corrupt bastards I see right now.